public services

In Ecuador, royalties from oil extraction have increased average educational attainment and generated good jobs in the formal sector, despite reducing incentives to pursue tertiary education.

How did a large-scale health intervention – the expansion of HIV antiretroviral therapy – impact the prevalence of violent events throughout Africa?

Public service reforms can provoke political backlash from service providers, but when quality increases sufficiently, the electoral rewards can outweigh the costs

After the public disclosure of alleged forced sterilisations during a family planning campaign, municipalities in Peru with more victims exhibited a steep decline in public health services and lower levels of trust in public institutions

A study of community toilets in India shows importance of fully subsidising basic services and of measures to prevent overcrowding and degradation

Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions

The technology can reduce leakages in programmes, increase access to public programmes and market services, and improve the delivery of healthcare

In an experiment conducted with the Ministry of Health, workers recruited via career incentive ads proved more effective at delivering health services

An attendance-monitoring intervention in schools reduced absenteeism, but the impact on health care workers was limited